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Ernest William Brown

1866 - 1938

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Ernest William Brown FRS (29 November 1866 – 22 July 1938) was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923. His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion (lunar theory) and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest William Brown has received more than 56,121 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ernest William Brown is the 569th most popular mathematician (down from 412th in 2019), the 2,595th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,050th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ernest William Brown ranks 569 out of 1,004. Before him are Francesco Barozzi, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, Thoralf Skolem, Giacomo F. Maraldi, Klára Dán von Neumann, and Friedrich Robert Helmert. After him are Karol Borsuk, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Dénes Kőnig, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Paul Halmos, and Erhard Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Ernest William Brown ranks 100. Before him are Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Alexey Troitsky, J. M. E. McTaggart, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, and Johannes Jørgensen. After him are Jaan Poska, Alexander Protopopov, Tilemachos Karakalos, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Ernest Starling, and Adolf Meyer. Among people deceased in 1938, Ernest William Brown ranks 138. Before him are Aleksandar Malinov, Turar Ryskulov, Leopoldo Lugones, Alexander Svechin, Mirza Davud Huseynov, and Władysław Grabski. After him are Gazanfar Musabekov, Georges Urbain, Kaarlo Castrén, Mikayil Mushfig, Matvei Bronstein, and Agvan Dorzhiev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ernest William Brown ranks 2,595 out of 8,785. Before him are James Whale (1889), Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301), Flora Robson (1902), Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847), and Vanessa Kirby (1988). After him are Ronald Pickup (1940), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Amelia Dyer (1837), Constance Markievicz (1868), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), and John Crawfurd (1783).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Ernest William Brown ranks 54. Before him are John Playfair (1748), John Hadley (1682), Thomas Wright (1711), Egon Pearson (1895), Sydney Chapman (1888), and Paul Bernays (1888). After him are Harold Jeffreys (1891), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), G. I. Taylor (1886), William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), and William Whiston (1667).

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